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Overview
The Bob Swift software team is proud to announce the release of Macro Security for Confluence version 4.0.
With hundreds of customers in more than 45 countries, Macro Security for Confluence is one of our more most popular Bob Swift Atlassian apps. Version 1.0, the oldest recorded by Atlassian was released back in April of 2008 and since then, our team has released 12 versions of this app.
With version 4.0, we wanted to improve the overall administrative experience so users responsible for configuring the product could quickly findto make it easier for administrators to quickly locate, add, or change macro security Macro Security settings. We also heard from some of you You told us that editing a properties file in order to make a simple change was too restrictive. We agreed and decided to remove this from the editor experience altogether. Many of you asked us to make it easier to restrict macros by providing pick lists for macros picklists for selecting the names of trusted users, groups, and spaces, so we did (wink). We also heard from our customers did 😉. You also told us that the ability to enable/disable security at the individual macro-level was important to themyou, so version 4.0 now provides this ability. This release has other surprises in store, so please remember be sure to check out the Whats What's New section.
We also want to thank you, our incredible customers, for helping support using our apps. You have kept our backlogs full You have provided great feedback and suggestions to us over the years and you cheer us on from afar as we try hard to understand and meet your needs. We appreciate the support and want you to know that you, truly, truly are the reason why we build software!We would love to hear how satisfied you are with Macro Security for Confluence and sure would appreciate you taking a moment to provide us with a review.
Nagesh Santhapuri - Principal Software Engineer
Bob Swift Atlassian Applications
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A beautiful software release which includes:
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Organized Screen for Configuration
Admins, we've been listening to your feedback and version 4.0 has some exciting additions for you, namely:
- You no longer need to hunt and peck in order to find our configuration page. We've added Cache for Confluence as an item within the side navigation.We have a clean A new option Bob Swift configuration > Macro Security is now available right within the General Configuration sidebar for configuring Macro Security.
- The 'Macro Security for Confluence - Configuration' page offers a clean, new tabbed interface to separate the securing of macros from global configuration.
Elimination of the Properties
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We heard from some of you that editing a properties file in order to make a simple change was too restrictive and made simple changes a chore. We agreed and So, we decided to remove this from the editor experience altogether. Now we have the following:
- A single configuration screen allowing you to both list and restrict macros, as well as change the global configuration.
- If Automatic conversion of your configuration file, if you are upgrading and have from a previous version with a properties file in place, we automatically add your entries .
Wunderpick
We heard from customers that it was challenging to remember the exact names of supported macros without revisiting our documentation. They also mentioned that it was tough to remember groupgroups, userusers, and especially Confluence space keys. Our administrators struggle with this as well, so we decided to build the picklist of all picklists referred , which we refer to internally as "Wunderpick":
- Enter In the Macro field, begin typing the first few characters of a the macro name while we filter and autocomplete or sort through the listings.
- We are listing the managed macro names and their controlled parameters.
- Type the beginning of a group, individual user, or name of a Confluence space and we will help filter and autocompleteand we'll suggest the name of managed macros as well their parameters that can be controlled via Macro Security.
- In the Macro Restrictions field, begin typing the first few characters of a user name, group name, or space name we we'll suggest ones that match.
Secured Individual Macros
For several releases, we've provided the ability to enable/disable macro security at a global level and while this all-or-nothing approach was helpful, it wasn't fine-grained:. We now allow you to
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- Enable or disable individual macros.Simply toggle
- Toggle on or off states and confirm your changes.the protection for an individual entry (after confirmation, of course)
Migration of Configuration Changes
We heard from several customers that it was difficult to safely migrate macro security changes from either their test or staging environments into production or between production systemsbetween different systems to ensure they are configured identically. We agreed and in this releasesrelease:
- With two clicks, you can now import or export your entire configuration changes.
- All changes can now be safely moved and applied across systemscopied to another system.
The Macro Security for Confluence 4.0 Roadmap Team
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| Development | Nagesh Santhapuri |
| Support | Swathi Komirelli Vijay Ramamurthy Amith Mathur |
| Product Management | Randall Ward |
| Marketing | Holly Wright Sam Rector Kat Sandin Cody Wooten |
| Technical Writing | Sireesha Dugginapeddi Randall Ward |
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- You no longer need to hunt and peck in order to find our configuration page. We've added Cache for Confluence as an item within the side navigation.
- We have a clean new tabbed interface to separate the securing of macros from global configuration.
- A single screen to list and restrict macros.
- If you are upgrading and have a properties file in place, we automatically add your entries
- Enter the first few characters of a macro name while we filter and autocomplete or sort through the listings.
- We are listing the managed macro names and their controlled parameters.
- Type the beginning of a group, individual user, or name of a Confluence space and we will help filter and autocomplete.
- We now allow you to enable or disable individual macros.
- Simply toggle on or off states and confirm your changes.
- With two clicks, you can now import or export configuration changes.
- All changes can now be safely moved and applied across systems.
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